MU engineering students launch air balloon for second year

Saturday, May 5, 2012 | 5:31 p.m. CDT; updated 11:20 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, May 8, 2012

COLUMBIA — What appeared to be a crude silver tent was being pitched on Missouri's football training field around 7 a.m. Saturday. A group of MU students huddled beneath it, some kneeling inside to fill up a giant white balloon. Others propped it up with two-by-fours.

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